From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is a novel which I can guarantee myself.
The scenes are not laid in a very elevated class of life, and some are extremely painful, but
there is a noble religious tone throughout the book which carries one through all. If I were
inclined to criticise, I should say that the author does not understand women as well as he
does men, and one scene, in which a so-called lady offers to be the wife of a man much her
inferior in position, would in other hands have been very unpleasant. As it is, it is merely
unnatural. The author's sympathies are evidently not with the English Church, but he is no way
antagonistic to it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
